Mottainai
Mottainai by our friend, Charles Watson.
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Yokishop - Handmade and Repurposed Clothing
For your viewing pleasure - come visit us and let us share the story with you so you can be part of the history as well...
New Year, New Beginning... Plus, the Wall
It's a New Year and we've decided that it's time to bring back the flavor...
So Yokishop has now moved 2 doors south so we welcome everyone to swing by and check us out NOW! The dazzling gear will always be rolling in and new pieces are added weekly but come be part of the story...
Most supporters have heard the storyline to some degree but now you can actually experience it and see how everything continues to unfold through the addition of the Wall - (G)ather, (A)bundance, (R)epurpose, (D)emonstrate, (E)thos and (N)ow come see it and take a picture with it to spread awareness...
The maestro is prepping his shots...
And good people helping good people...
Graphic Development: Welcome to Yokishop
Here at Yokishop, we are always trying to find better ways of communicating our ethos to our customers. With this latest art, we tried to capture ,the feeling you get when you walk into the store, into a tshirt.
Of course we had to start with the Pelican.
We got into the whole lettering craze so we had a go at doing an abstract pelican built from words.
We oranged up the beak. We liked the feeling of the words but aesthetically it wasn't doing it for us.
So we tried going a bit more literal
for the next
few ones. But something was still off. Then we thought, let's go back to the source. That original pelican.
It's an ode to Keith Haring painting his thick lines onto Graces Jones. We're stoked with it and that's why we decided to slap it on a tee.
Here's the talented Katie, prepping a blank tee to be printed on at Ink & Think, located less than 5 minutes away from our shop!
Watch that pelican appear magically on the tee!
The ink is still smudge-able at this point so we have to put it on this conveyor belt where it will be transported into a tunnel that's 800 degrees hot to set the ink!
The extremely high temperature sets the ink so now it can be worn and washed without losing it's color. Stayed tuned to find out when this guy will be selling in our store!
New Mucho Aloha Window Painting
For the new window artwork, we wanted to give the feeling of Mucho Aloha without the use of logos or words. We thought that doing a "bad" Hawaiian themed painting that you'd find in a garage sale would be perfect. For the next 3 days, we got to work and dug deep to figure out how to paint.
Marking off the border.
Marking off the Palm Tree.
The beak of a kiwi as it lies on the beach.
Kiwi beak from the back.
The first attempt at leaves.
Thicker bigger leaves.
Painting finished, time for the border.
Just kidding, it wasn't good enough. Let's start again!
Kiwi beak #2.
Dang look at that maturity in painting style.
Now let's add that border.
Gold border.
Gold frame with dimension.
Gold frame with engravings and added highlights to the leaves. That's a wrap!
Come on by and check out the super cool painting in person as well as the awesome stuff we sell within!
Without Walls - Reduce, Reuse, Upcycle
Our friends at Without Walls hung out with Yoki for the day to see our process here at Yokishop.
